Principal Software Engineer

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Engineer who will contribute to best practice application development by writing and rigorously defending production-grade code on a regular basis, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered Scrum team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to design and implement features from the ground-up while mentoring other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty.

To succeed as a Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be collaborative, adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means that you’re enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the team’s top priorities, no self-promoting politicians allowed. Adventurous means that you’re not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team. Passionate means that you’re eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America

What your day-to-day will look like:

· Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

· Work with business to iterate over software requirements

· Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code

· Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

· Analyze and debug systems

· Perform validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner

· Review the work of others, and invite others to review your work

· Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products

· Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies

What qualifications we’re looking for:

· Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using Java. Experience with UI development and React frameworks.

· Experience with Spring Boot

· In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL)

· Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints

· Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it

· Proficient in GIT

· Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)

· Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured)

· Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills

· Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision

· Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things

· Team player

· Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude

· Proven experience as a great Engineer

· BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree

Generative AI Code Assistants - Use of Generative AI Code Assistants (e.g. Github Copilot) and knowledge of latest Generative AI Model capabilities would be an asset

Bonus points for:

· Nice to have Selenium automation and cloud experience

· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Istio

· Experience with Ansible

· Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline

· Linux and IP networking knowledge

· Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services or equivalent

· Experience with SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect

· Experience working on a SaaS product

· Experience with Service Oriented Architecture

· Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy

· On-call experience with production grade systems

· Has mentored others in a professional setting